Olympia Little Theatre
Celebrating 70 years of Community Entertainment!
Founded in 1939, Olympia Little Theatre is the oldest live theater in Olympia and one of the oldest in Washington. As we enter our 70th year, we are proud that we can continue to provide quality theater at a reasonable price. Please join us in 2009-2010 and help celebrate our 70th anniversary season with some classic playwrights – Neil Simon, Agatha Christie, and William Shakespeare – and a couple of new ones.
MAIN
STAGE:
Importance of
Being Ernest
by Oscar Wilde
September 18 – October 11, 2009
Oscar Wilde, meet the Love Generation! Two young gentlemen (now) in swinging 60’s London have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. Jack Worthing has invented a ne’er-do-well brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his respectable country life behind and visit his ladylove Gwendolyn. Intrigued, his friend, Algy, borrows the identity of ‘Ernest’ to visit Worthing's young and beautiful ward, Cecily. Things start to go awry when Jack, Algy, and Ernest all make an appearance at the same time and the deception is discovered -- which threatens to everyone’s love life.
The Nerd by Larry Shue
November 5 – 29, 2009
One of the funniest plays ever written, this extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy centers on the hilarious dilemma of a young architect, Willum Cubbert, who is visited by a man he's never met but who saved his life in Vietnam—the visitor turning out to be an incredibly inept, hopelessly stupid "nerd" who outstays his welcome with a vengeance.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
February 19 – March 14, 2010
Shakespeare Abridged: This hilarious, breakneck comedy has three actors making their way through all of the Bard's plays (and some sonnets, too!) in less than two hours. A wild frolic through the works of Shakespeare, you've never seen the classics performed like this. Complete with a hip-hop Othello, and the histories performed as a football game, this is Shakespeare for those who don't think they like Shakespeare and especially for those who do!
Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie
April 9 – May 2, 2010
An elegant honeymoon cruise on the Nile for two attractive young aristocrats turns strange and dangerous with the surprise appearance of the husband’s stalker. Despite both the protection of the bride’s guardian (who also embarks conveniently and unexpectedly) and the odd assemblage of other passengers pursuing solutions to ancient mysteries, perils mount for the romantic couple. Before the doomed ship reaches its downriver destination, an audacious conspiracy roils the waters of the timeless river and lays bare the blackest hearts of criminal intrigue.
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
May 28 – June 20, 2010
Hilarity
abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the
Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and
it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned years before. A Hollywood
producer, in search of fresh fields after three marriages, calls his childhood
sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. The last
couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter
out of the locked bathroom and down to the ballroom for her wedding.
THE DIRECTOR'S SERIES:
A Christmas Carol on WOLT (A Radio Play) adapted from Charles Dickens
December 10-20, 2009
One of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time! Ebenezer Scrooge gets a second chance at life in this classic tale of love and redemption, as performed by the WOLT Radio Players who read the play and create sound effects for you, their 1940’s radio audience.
Murderers by Jeffrey Hatcher
January 14 – 24, 2010
Gerald, Lucy, and Minka are all murderers, living and working in the Riddle Key Retirement Community in Florida. That they committed murder is not in question, but as for why... Join them for a killer evening of three stories filled with revenge and irony by one of theater’s master storytellers, Jeffrey Hatcher (A Picasso, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Three Viewings.)